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Secret Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner Peace
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This treasury of Indian lore and inspiration is fascinating listening, detailing the stories of ceremonies, medicine men and their awesome power. 4 cassettes.
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 299.75
EAN: 9780933031159
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 0933031157
Label: Council Oak Books
Manufacturer: Council Oak Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 552
Publication Date: 1995-10-01
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Studio: Council Oak Books
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Summary: Native American Pathways
Comment: Thomas Mails, a well known artist, spent most of his adult life painting Native American subjects and recording their vanishing culture. In Secret Native American Pathways Mails provides valuable information on Native rituals. A friend of some of the great Native American shamans and holy men of the last century Mails preserved much information about the spiritual paths of Native people. Mails died several years ago but the legacy he leaves in Secret Native American Pathways is invaluable and thanks to him will survive.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your time, money, or energy on this book!
Comment: I detest writing negative reviews, but when the author says the following on page 230. My hands are tied.
"I do not in any instance give you enough guidance to duplicate any of the rituals. The native Americans would be rightfuly displeased if I did, amd I would be breaking confidences."
If Mr. Mails did not have permission to release accurate information he should not have written the book!
Now to my minor nitpicks about the book.
I was personaly offended at the title of chapter 4 "Marauding Apache".
On page 189 Mr. Mails talks of women as well as men being pierced in the sundance. Both sexes may participate in the sundance but only the men are pierced.
On page 211, 258, and 259 the author discusses the Sioux medicine wheel, and he lists different colors associated with the directions.
Page 211& 259: West-Black, North-Red, East-Yellow, South-White.
Page 258: West-Black, North-White, East-Red, and South Yellow.
Page 258 has the correct color associations according to Nick Black Elk's vision, and these same colors are shown on the cover of "Native Wisdom" Ed McGaa.
I have no idea why the author would have the colors right on page 258 and wrong again on the very next page.
If you have questions or comments E-Mail me. Two Bears.
Wah doh Ogedoda
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